US Patent Issued to FURUNO ELECTRIC on March 4 for "Device and method for detecting target object" (New Zealander, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,961, issued on March 4, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Nishinomiya, Japan).

"Device and method for detecting target object" was invented by Yasushi Nishimori (Sanda, Japan), Yasunobu Asada (Auckland, New Zealand) and Shinya Tanimura (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a target object detection device. The target object detection device includes a first transmission signal generator, a first transmission array, a first switch, and a controller. The first transmission signal generator is configured to generate a first transmission signal. The first transmission array includes...